Monday, 5 March 2012

SOMEONE BIGGER tops my UK library loans chart again

For the seventh year running my kite-flying picture book Someone Biggerwas my most borrowed book from UK libraries last year. However the huge lead it previously had over my other books dwindled from around 10,000 to a mere 1,458 loans.

After dropping a few places the previous year, I've crept back up the Most Borrowed Authors Chart to a giddy 192nd place. The most borrowed author was US crime writer James Patterson, with children's "author" Daisy Meadows in second place. "Daisy Meadows" is the pseudonym used by a collection of authors who write the Rainbow Magic series, so the highest ranking individual children's authors were Jacqueline Wilson and Francesca Simon, who took fourth and fifth place behind US romantic novelist Nora Roberts.

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Jonathan Emmett is the author of over sixty children’s books including 'Bringing Down the Moon', 'Someone Bigger', 'The Princess and the Pig' and 'The Santa Trap'. His work has been translated into over 30 different languages and has won several children’s book awards both in the UK and abroad.